Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-10-01
men. The Minnesota delegation, 400 strong
arrived at IA. M, on the 9th.

derricks and other apparatus, near
Cygnet, Ohio, on the Toledo, Southern and
western =. h, took fire from gas exhale1'
by the wells which was ignited by the fur
mace under the engine boiler. Two men
were fatally burned. The loss j. $1O0, coo.
AtHalifax, N. S. Hon a. w. Nc
Lellan, postmaster-general, has admitted
bribery by agents in his election for the
house Of commons, and his seat for Colch a.
ter is consequently rendered vacant.
Charges of personal bribery against Mr..
Mcclellan are yet to be heard.
At RonceYerte, Greenbrier County.
w. Va, Friday night, Mrs. Louise Eldridge
wife of a prominent citizen, was myster.
lousy assassinated at her own door by
from Winchester rifle through her heart.
At Charleston, S. c.. by the falling
of q scaffolding around the court house
building Contractor Kerigan and seven
coloreQ WOrkmen were precipitated to the
ground and all seriously, and several Of
hem, it is feared, fatally injured
The total value of the imports into
Canada for the month OF August last was
$9, 769, $50. The dnty collected was $2.9S8.
sos. The total value Of the exports amount
ed to 80, Oh, O54, Of which ss,2s4, 9ss was the
produce of Canada. 6, IS - B,
At Lynchburg, Va, Mrs Jennie
Thorley was arrested in the National Elk
change bank while attempting to have 4
check on the New Orleans National bank
for SIS, 600 cashea. The check is either
raised or q forgery. S. s..s
At Leavenworth, Kas., Henry Rich
ter, a WE'LL known German, had his throat
cut by pair Of negro rufians in the full
glare of an electric light and while several
were passing and yet the murderers escaped
The extent of the losses by the re-
cent fire which destroyed half Of Craven
hurts, Ont, is now estimated at half q
million dollars. Already steps have been
taken to rebuild the burned buildings.
A passenger train on the Iron
Mountain railway ran into freight train
A;anding on side track near Walnut
Ridge, Mo. Both locomotives were
wrecked. but nobody was injured.
At Chicago, Mrs. A. R. Parsons,
wife of the condemned anarchist, has been
arrested and locked up by the police for
circulating the address written by her hus-
E. III.
States Attorney Grinnell, Judge
/ Jameson and Melville w. Fuller of Chicago,
are rather inclined to make light of the law
| points which Gen. Pryor will seek to raise
in behalf of the anarchists.
| 0. M. Johnson, Cincinnati usurer
who had ground down poor people, charg-
ing as high as 200 per cent. interest,", was
tined $1,000 and costs by Judge Caldwell.
The barb-wire mill of Fish &
Cornell, at Joliet, ILL.,, with IS wire
machines, employing. so hands has been
M. D. Ball, United States attorney
for Alaska died on the steamer Aucon
while en- route to Seattle. His body was
shipped to Washington City.
Gravenhurst, Ont, a small town
suffered large loss by fire, not business
! place being left, nor building on nine
blocks. Loss $50, 900.
A large part of the business portion
of the town OF Sanford, Fla, has been des
troyed by fire. Loss 100000. and very
little insurance.
| Talbot, the youth who stole Fanny
Davenport's diamonds last February in
Memphis, has been sentenced to six years
imprisonment,
Phil Armour, it is said, is about to
start meat company and enter rivalry
with Marquis de Mores for Eastern trade
Fire at Elgin, Texas, destroyed The
| Chemical works and warehouses and three
stores. Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000
Three patients of a doctor at Mill
Grove. Ont we're given morphine for quin.
! inc, and soon after died.
The Gallatin Glass Works at Sharps-
burg, Pa, have been destroyed by fire.
Hon. E. B. Washburne is seriously
i'll with congestion of the brain
N Montreal is investigating charges Of
of aldermanic dishonesty.
IN FHE EAST.
The first of the races for the
| Americas cup, between the Scotch
cutter Thistle and the American sloor
Volunteer was sailed on. the 9th, over the
inside course Of the New York Yacht club,